The Port Folio, Volume 1Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... passed in a sort of triumph across the Greve . The first executions which gave the mob of Paris a taste for blood , took place at the corner of a neighbouring street , and it was at the Maison de Ville , that the party of Robespierre ...
... passed in a sort of triumph across the Greve . The first executions which gave the mob of Paris a taste for blood , took place at the corner of a neighbouring street , and it was at the Maison de Ville , that the party of Robespierre ...
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... passed at Flatbush , when he revelled in the full enjoyment of health , and its attendant cheerfulness . They formed a vivid contrast to that joyless and dreary state , to which disease afterwards reduced him . He was near fourteen ...
... passed at Flatbush , when he revelled in the full enjoyment of health , and its attendant cheerfulness . They formed a vivid contrast to that joyless and dreary state , to which disease afterwards reduced him . He was near fourteen ...
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... passing through the Sound ( Lord Howe having arrived with the British fleet at Sandy Hook , and blocked up that outlet , ) he proceeded off the Azores , where , besides making several other prizes , he fell in with a part of the ...
... passing through the Sound ( Lord Howe having arrived with the British fleet at Sandy Hook , and blocked up that outlet , ) he proceeded off the Azores , where , besides making several other prizes , he fell in with a part of the ...
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... passing from each compartment . A piece of lighted coal , was placed at the point where the air from the tubes issued by a common orifice . At this point the heat is intense and capable of producing the most astonishing effects ...
... passing from each compartment . A piece of lighted coal , was placed at the point where the air from the tubes issued by a common orifice . At this point the heat is intense and capable of producing the most astonishing effects ...
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... passing by Madrid . Until his time the advantage was unknown of travelling in a post - chaise the hundred leagues which separate these two cities . The few roads and canals Spain does possess , she owes to the sovereigns of the house of ...
... passing by Madrid . Until his time the advantage was unknown of travelling in a post - chaise the hundred leagues which separate these two cities . The few roads and canals Spain does possess , she owes to the sovereigns of the house of ...
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Page 260 - Hecuba ! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have?
Page 509 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 136 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 236 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 379 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 304 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too ; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 110 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 262 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair. And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 109 - Behold me then, me for him, life for life, I offer: on me let thine anger fall; Account me man ; I for his sake will leave Thy bosom, and this glory next to thee Freely put off, and for him lastly die...
Page 254 - Nor will I quit thy shore A second time; for still I seem To love thee more and more.